THE CULTIVATOR. 
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ISOMETRICAL VIEW OF THE ENCLOSED GROUNDS.—(Fig-. 91.) 
A. Business Office—b. b. b. Foot Entrances—c. c. c. Carriage Entrances—cl. cl. cl. cl. Carriage-way, with posts 
and sheds for cattle and horses within—e. e. e. e. Committee’s Tents—F. Large Tent—G. Floral Hall—H. La¬ 
dies’ Home—I. Manufacturer’s Lodge—K. Farmer's Hall—L. Hyde Park Agricultural moving Temple—m. m. m. 
booths—n. Pens for Sheep and Swine.—Area, 10 acres. 
circumference and weighing eleven ounces, all presented 
by Mrs. M. Yasser, of Poughkeepsie. 
One of the most truly valuable and meritorious articles 
ever shown at any fair in this country, was a neat glass 
case containing 35 varieties of wheat; heads and shelled 
specimens of each variety, being arranged with great 
neatness in separate apartments of the case. A large por¬ 
tion of these were cultivated, and all arranged and pre¬ 
sented by Gen. R. Harmon of Wheatland, Monroe co., 
whose labors in testing the various qualities of different 
sorts, have already proved of so much value to the agri¬ 
culture of this country. 
Numerous paintings of cattle, horses, and of rural 
scenes, decorated the walls on each side. 
The second building, inscribed “ LADIES’ HOME,” 
was enriched with a gorgeous display, consisting of a 
vast collection of articles of taste, splendor, and skill, 
among which were superb specimens of needlework on 
screens, coverlets, rugs, chairs, and in landscapes; tem¬ 
ples of shell-work,—and hundreds of other things of great 
splendor. So fine indeed was this display of fancy pro¬ 
ductions, that we were almost led to question the propri¬ 
ety of thus eclipsing the more humble, but pre-eminently 
useful and substantial products also handsomely arranged 
here, among which were many excellent specimens of 
quilts and other articles of domestic use and comfort, 
conferring the highest credit on the truly worthy contri¬ 
butors. 
The third building, entitled “ MANUFACTURER’S 
LODGE,” contained an excellent collection of fabrics, 
including a large assortment of cottons and mixtures 
from the Matte wan Company; a superb display of cloths, 
consisting of 62 different kinds, from the Middlesex 
Woolen Company, Lowell; fine carpets from the Thomp- 
sonville Company, and from C. M. Pelton, A. Ross, and 
others of Poughkeepsie. There were specimens of good 
solid-head pins, made by Mosely, Howard & Co. Pough¬ 
keepsie; and models of many useful domestic and rural 
contrivances and machines of great interest. 
The fourth building, « FARMER’S HALL,” was 
occupied with an exhibition of flour, salt, butter, cheese, 
sugar, and all coarse articles of domestic production, as 
well as cooking stoves, fanning mills, washing ma¬ 
chines, &c. 
These four buildings, being in one continuous line, 
and open at the ends, presented a vista 500 feet long, 
which, with the innumerable articles there exhibited, 
and the congregated thousands constantly passing through,' 
gave an extraordinary interest to the scene. 
One of the most truly magnificent objects of the kind 
ever seen, was the “ FARMER’S CAR,” from Hyde 
Park. This vehicle, from the nature and style of its 
decorations, might have been taken as the combined 
work of the most refined votaries of the divine trio, Ce¬ 
res, Pomona and Flora. The body, or frame work, was 
26 feet in length, by ten in breadth and twenty in height, 
covered with a magnificent canopy of evergreen festoons 
and wreaths, and presenting the form of a sylvan temple, 
the walls or sides of which were nearly one entire mass 
of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and farm productions gen¬ 
erally, some of them of extraordinary size and excel¬ 
lence. The inside had the appearance of a bower, with 
rustic chairs, made of the grape vine, cedar and oak. 
These chairs were occupied by ladies and children, who 
from this cool and agreeable shelter, quietly viewed the 
surrounding scene. The car was drawn by ten yoke of 
superb oxen from Hyde Park, to which was awarded the 
premium for the best ten yoke from one town. The 
color of all was a deep red, with scarcely the variation 
of a shade—they were well matched in shape and 
size, and showed much Devon blood. When this 
splendid car, with its flying colors and coat of arms, 
first entered the grounds, like a moving miniature 
temple, among the thousands there assembled the effect 
and interest produced was almost electric, and several 
distinguished persons pronounced it as decidedly superior 
in design and display to any thing of the kind they had 
ever witnessed. It is no more than justice to say that 
the decorations of this beautiful Car, were designed by 
Mrs. D. B. Fuller, and arranged and executed under 
